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UNITED STATES "ATENT QFFICE.

MILTON H. GARSIDE, OF IVAYNE TOWNSHIP, PASSAIG COUNTY, N. J.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAILWAY-RAIL JOINTS.

Specification forming 1 art of Letters Patent No. 151,377, dated May 26,1874; application filed April 3, 1674.

To all who m it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON H. GAnsIDn, of Vfayne township, in the countyof Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvementsin Lock-Bolts and Fish- Plates for Railroad-Rails, of which thefollowing is a specification:

This invention has relation to devices for connecting together the endsof railroad-rails; and it consists in the novel construction andcombination of slotted fish-plates and malleable key-bolts, applied tosaid rails in the manner hereinafter particularly described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of tworails conneetal by my improvement. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectionthrough same; and Fig. 3 is a side view of one of the key-bolts.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the key-bolts; B, the slottedfish-plates; and l),

the connected rails, correspondingly slotted for the passage of thebolts. The said bolts are, for the purposes of myinvention, made ofmalleable metal, with semi-cylindrical shanks A, beveled at the ends, asshown, and are furnished with heads E, each having a beveled notch, c,with parallel sides, formed in one side. The fish-plates are secured tothe rails by passing through each slot or hole two key-bolts, which areinserted, respectively, from opposite sides of the rail, with their flatsurfaces in contact, and driven until the beveled end of each key passesthrough the beveled'notch in the head of its mate, and is bent overagainst or toward the surface of the adjacent fish-plate, as shown inFig. 2. To allow the ends of the keys to bend more easily, the slots inthe fish-plates may be slightly elongated and reamed or beveled at theside near which the ends of the keys pass.

The peculiar feature of my invention is the provision of the bevelednotch in the head of the key-bolts,and the corresponding bevel at theends of the keys, whereby the latter are caused to bend, or clinched asthey are driven through the slots, and do not require to be afterwardfastened. I

I am aware that keybolts have been applied to fish-plates andrailroad-rails for a similar purpose. I, therefore, do not claim broadlysuch devices; but

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the fish-plates B B and rails D, of the key-boltsA, having hereled notches in their head and correspondingly beveledshanks, and applied to said rails and fish-plates, substantially asshown and described.

MILTON H. GABSIDE.

Witnesses GEO. N. WEATHERBY, BENJAMIN J. COLE.

